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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rebecca Black

Judge rules that ‘decisive’ statement evidence can be heard in Soldier F trial

A judge has ruled that key hearsay evidence in the trial of a former paratrooper accused of two murders on Bloody Sunday can be admitted as evidence in his trial.

Judge Patrick Lynch, who is presiding over the non-jury trial at Belfast Crown Court, granted an application by the prosecution to admit a number of statements made by other soldiers on the ground during the shootings in Londonderry on January 30 1972.

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